Counselling without boundaries

IF 0.5 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychotherapy and Politics International Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI:10.24135/ppi.v21i1and2.07

Rita Edah

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Abstract

Hestia’s Overnight Hotel Counselling Service for survivors of the Grenfell fire was set up in response to a disaster and therefore most of the ‘normal rules’ of counselling boundaries could not apply. There is a gap in the literature regarding counselling in times of disasters and the ethical dilemmas that come with it. The deficit on this issue is especially great in the UK. Using a thematic analysis, this study explores how nine counsellors experienced working within unconventional counselling boundaries in this service. Findings indicate that the challenges encountered, and outcomes experienced, fostered a questioning of many of the rules assumed about counselling and psychotherapy especially regarding boundaries. Furthermore, they seem to validate the common factors’ view on the importance of the therapeutic relationship for successful outcomes, even within an unconventional framework. The study raises some questions for counselling and psychotherapy practice, training, and research such as preparedness for disaster counselling, diversity in service provision, and developing further the concept of community counselling by a community of counsellors with a community of clients in community settings.

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没有界限的咨询

Hestia为格伦费尔火灾幸存者提供的过夜酒店咨询服务是为了应对灾难而设立的，因此大多数咨询界限的“正常规则”都不适用。关于灾难时期的咨询以及随之而来的道德困境，文献中存在空白。在这个问题上的赤字在英国尤其严重。通过主题分析，本研究探讨了九名咨询师在这项服务中如何在非常规咨询界限内工作的经验。研究结果表明，所遇到的挑战和所经历的结果，促使人们对许多关于咨询和心理治疗的规则提出质疑，尤其是关于界限的规则。此外，他们似乎验证了共同因素的观点，即治疗关系对成功结果的重要性，即使在一个非常规的框架内。该研究为咨询和心理治疗的实践、培训和研究提出了一些问题，如灾难咨询的准备、服务提供的多样性，以及进一步发展社区咨询的概念，即在社区环境中由社区咨询师与社区来访者组成的社区咨询。

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Psychotherapy and Politics International PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Psychotherapy and Politics International explores the connections and interactions between politics and psychotherapy, both in theory and in practice. It focuses on the application to political problematics of thinking that originates in the field of psychotherapy, and equally on the application within the field of psychotherapy of political concepts and values internationally. The journal welcomes articles from all modalities or schools of psychotherapy and from across the political spectrum.